Are you a passionate and experienced VP of Risk looking for an exciting opportunity? Our client, a leading player in the B2B Payments Space, is seeking a strategic thinker to join their team in Toronto. As the VP of Risk, you will be responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive Risk Management strategy, with a focus on Fraud.

What You'll Do

As our VP of Risk, you will be the driving force behind our Fraud Risk Management strategy and processes. You will work closely with our Product, Engineering, Compliance, and Finance teams to build a revised multiyear Fraud Risk team strategy with clear 12-month rolling objectives. You will also be responsible for driving insights, setting KPI targets and OKRs, and owning the weekly reports your team creates to communicate progress, gaps, and next steps.

In this highly entrepreneurial role, you will have the opportunity to make an early and long-lasting impact, leveraging resources currently in place and building on past successes. You will keep an eye on the overarching Risk Strategy and oversee our client's capabilities across the risk spectrum (e.g. AML, Risk Operations). You will also help in hiring leaders who can own and build capabilities across such a spectrum.

What You Bring

Our ideal candidate is someone who has seen the ugly side of Fraud and successfully built lasting mechanisms to prevent and, when needed, appropriately deal with it at scale. You are passionate about detecting fraud and being on top of general risk trends. You are a business risk expert familiar with digital payments and the KYC process in a B2B SaaS context. You've built and executed risk operating plans (ideally in the payments space) and led large and high-performing teams who owned Fraud Detection, Transaction Monitoring, and Recovery Efforts. You also worked with Business Intelligence Analysts and Data Scientists to leverage internally built and 3rd party tools that help prevent Fraud. You have experience driving superior outcomes through both internal and 3rd party teams.

The role is highly strategic, however, you are comfortable and ready to roll up your sleeve to dig deep and be close to your team as you balance your role's strategic and tactical components. For example, you are able to direct a team of analytical team members and QA their work and also have the ability to manage stakeholders across the organization. Even though you may not be an expert, you have had some exposure to other risk topics within the payment world such as AML, Risk Operations, and Regulatory Compliance. For example, you understand the importance of operational effectiveness and efficiency and how Operations and Strategy intersect.

What Sets This Company Apart

Our client is a meritocracy, so you'll find that their decisions are based on facts, not dispositions. They are also process and data-driven, so you need to be, too. Everything they do can be traced back to their Leadership Principles. They leave their egos at the door and roll up their sleeves to get things done. They have an extremely strong product-market fit with an ever-growing customer base. They’re backed by an experienced and diverse group of FinTech veterans.

What's Next

If you are a highly motivated and experienced VP of Risk who is passionate about making an impact in the B2B Payments Space, then our client wants to hear from you. They have large ambitions and are scaling rapidly. You’ll get the space and the support you need to grow by focusing deeply on meaningful work.

To apply, please send your CV and a cover letter to our consultant Denzel Mutoko at denzel.mutoko@robertwalters.com. Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to join our team!